Captain Fowler went to the Pacific in 1868 as captain of the London Missionary Society vessel JOHN WILLIAMS III. He was dismissed in 1871 because of his treatment of Pacific Islanders. The logbook begins on 12 November 1868 when Captain Fowler left London. It continues to 25 February 1869 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III passed Jervis Bay, NSW. It resumes on 30 March 1869 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III left Sydney for a cruise to the Pacific Islands, which extended to Tahiti, back to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and then to Raiatea before returning to Sydney on 31 December 1869. The cruise took in Raiatea, Tahaa, Huahine, Tahiti, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Aneityum, Mare, Lifu, Uvea, Tubuai and Savai'i. The logbook resumes again on 4 April 1870 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III was at Huahine. Subsequent calls were made at Raiatea, Tahiti, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Manihiki, Rakahanga, Pukapuka, Mitiaro, Mauke, Atiu, Tutuila, Niue, the Tokelau, Ellice (Tuvalu) and Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), the southern New Hebrides and the Loyalty Islands. The JOHN WILLIAMS III returned to Sydney on 20 December 1870. Captain Fowler returned to England in 1871 in the ship BUCKLEY CASTLE.

Alden was an officer in the sloop-of-war 'Vincennes', the flagship of the United States Exploring Expedition which spent four years in the Pacific under the command of Commodore Charles Wilkes.

The journal gives an account - but not a day-by-day account - of the Vincennes voyage which took in the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, the Antarctic, Hawaii, the Gilbert (Kiribati), Ellice (Tuvalu) and Marshall Islands. See also PMB MS 124-146 and the Bureau's newsletter, Pambu, Dec. 1971:25, pp. 4-7.

The Saints Herald is an official weekly journal of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, published at Lamoni, Iowa, USA.

The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in New Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago. This film complements film PMB 93 in that it contains copies of articles from issues of The Saints Herald, which were not available when PMB 93 was filmed. See also PMB 92, The Saints Herald, Vols 21-50. Autumn Leaves, another publication of the Reorganized Church, has been filmed as PMB 94 (Vols 1-21) and PMB 109 (Vols 22-44) 1888-1931 inclusive.

Samuel Greatheed (d.1823) was one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. This work, written under the pen-name Nausistratus, was published as a series of articles in the Sailor's Magazine and Naval Miscellany, London, 1820-21, Vol.1, p. 402-6 and 449-56, and Vol.2, p. 1-8. It deals with the Bounty mutiny and its aftermath.

The work is based on printed sources, the then-unpublished journal of James Morrison of the Bounty, and verbal communications from an officer of HMS Pandora, which was sent to the Pacific to find and arrest the Bounty mutineers. It includes a number of details not published elsewhere. For a brief account of Greatheed's interest in Bounty matters, see Rolf Du Rietz's Note sur l'Histoire des Manuscrits de James Morrison in Journal de James Morrison, Paris, 1966.

Joseph F. Burton (1838-1909) and his wife Emma (1844-1927) were missionaries of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They served in Tahiti and the surrounding islands in the 1890s and 1900s.

The letters were written from Tahiti. The Instructions concerning the Duties of Church Officers were published in 'Te Orometua', a Tahitian-language paper founded by Burton.

Zion's Ensign is a weekly publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri. Letters and articles on the Pacific Islands.

Letters and articles on the Pacific Islands. In the period covered the church was active largely in French Polynesia, including Tahiti, Tuamotu Islands, Tuba, as well as the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, and Tonga. For other publications by the Reorganized Church see also PMB 92, 93 and 100 for The Saints Herald; PMB 94 and 109 for Autumn Leaves; PMB 105 for Journal of History; and PMB 106 for Times and Seasons.

Charles Sarka (1879-1960) was born in Chicago. He began a career as an artist in his early teens; visited Egypt in 1902 and Tahiti and Moorea in 1903; and was a frequent contributor to such American magazines as Collier's, Scribner's, Cosmopolitan, Everybody's and Harper's in his later years. An exhibition of water colours which he did in Tahiti and Mo'orea was held in New York in 1963. Examples of his work were bought by some of America's leading art galleries.

Tahiti Nui' is a narrative of Sarka's life during his sojourn in Tahiti and Moorea in French Polynesia. See also an article by Robert Langdon in Pacific Islands Monthly, December, 1966, pp.93-97.

The papers are: 1. Documents concerning the appointment of a Danish Consul in Hawaii, 1846.

2. Printed reports of the Hawaiian Minister of the Interior, Attorney-General and Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Hawaiian Legislature, dated 21 May 1845. The Attorney-General's report is entitled On the Inferences of the Constitution (31pp.)
3. Official correspondence concerning the appointment of the First Danish Consul, E.A. Suwerkrop, and his successor Ludwig Holberg Anthon in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1849-50
4. A printed Order of the Privy Council defining the instructions to be given to the diplomatic agents and consuls of the Hawaiian Islands, 25 August 1848. (5pp.)
5. A printed Whalemens' Shipping List from Bush, Makee and Company, Lahaina, Maui, 1848 (list of whalers, date of arrival at Lahaina, name of master, where owned and details of cargo. Covers 103 ships in period 18 July - 25 November 1848)
6. Correspondence of Royal Danish Consulate, Papeete, Tahiti, 1872-94.

Extracts on Tahiti, French Polynesia, copied from 'Transactions of the (London) Missionary Society', Vols. II and III.

The Saints Herald is an offical publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Vols. 21 to 28, No. 20, were published at Plano, Illinois, USA. From then on, Lamoni, Iowa, was the place of publication. Until the end of 1882 (Vol. 29), the journal was published fortnightly. It then became a weekly publication. The volumes of The Saints Herald prior to Vol. 21 contain no material relating to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in New Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago. For other publications by the Reorganized Church see also PMB 94 and 109 for Autumn Leaves, PMB 104 for Zion's Ensign, PMB 105 for Journal of History, and PMB 106 for Times and Seasons. See also PMB 89, 93 and 100